Raekwon has set the record straight on whether or not Nas dissed Jim Jones on a scrapped version of their collab, “Omerta.”
Raekwon addressed the speculation about the scrapped version of the track’s lyrics that made it sound like Nas was dissing Jones.
"Nas did not write that verse for Jim. That was a stray shot Jim got hit with," Raekwon asserted. "Y'all made it seem like it was for Jim. Nas wasn't dissing Jim. He wasn't dissing him.”
“The reason why he changed it? Because he knew that at the end of the day, 'Damn, Chef. I gave you this verse months ago, and now all this shit is popping up,’” alleged Raekwon. “I promise y'all he wasn't dissing Jim. This ain't no diss record. And if it was a diss record, why would he put it on my record? 'Cause guess what? I fuck with Jim. He know I fuck with Jim."
On an alternate version of “The Omerta” that hit the internet shortly after the final version was released, Nas can be heard throwing some serious subs to an unnamed enemy. "Got smoke with me? Beef with yourself,” said Nas at one point, later following up with, "You got me confused with your fabricated form of delusion/ You’re dusty, need to be bitch-smacked."
As for a reason that Nas would even diss Jones in the first place, it could be the fact that Jones has been telling every podcaster who can listen how he believes he’s a better rapper than Nas.
"As I got in the game, you got to realize that your rivals will be idols," said Jones during an appearance on the Joe & Jada podcast while reacting to a fan video comparing the two. "And not to take anything away from that. I've developed my own style and my own lane that these kids started to gravitate towards the same way that I gravitated towards Nas when I was younger and things like that. It's a whole different generation."
Jones continued on, explaining that he understood the person who made the video’s perspective because he’s representing the era that he grew up in. "They don't really know who Nas is. If they 22, he's born in '03," Jones alleged.
On the Nightcap podcast, Jones spoke again about Nas, suggesting that he’s bigger than the rap legend.
"I know I made a little boo-boo when you're talking about the sales and all this type of shit,” said Jones. "Nas was nice when I was in high school. Nas was dope. We appreciate him. He had a little bit of a run.”
“But Nas always came up second to [Jay-Z] and DMX and all these other people,” Jones continued. “He never had that type of influence on us, except for his first album. I used to want to dress like Nas... He had one of the illest albums of all time. [...] I'm a real fan of Nas. But he kind of lost me after the movie Belly and shit like that."
"I would run laps around Nas rapping right now, bro," Jones proclaimed. "Right now, 2025, I'm in the game still rapping at a high capacity."